Great, having built a library intranet at my last co-op, I can appreciate how easily Feed2JS & RSS2HTML would add dynamic content to any webpage – you get fresh content on your website with no further effort required! I played around with them and previewed the results, but I’m pretty sure WordPress doesn’t allow you to insert this code (please correct me if I am wrong), to add a RSS feed you simply go to your ‘Sidebar Widgets’ editing page, drag and drop a ‘RSS 1′ box, hit the ‘configure box’ in the right hand corner of your new ‘RSS’ 1 widget, insert the link, title and choose the number of items to display. Simple!
The OPML generator appeared to work for me… I made an OPML of 5 different library job sites, three of which I created using FeedYes, so be warned they may not display perfectly. I included ‘The most recent Information Management and Librarianship jobs from www.jobs.ac.uk‘, OLA’s Graduate jobs, USA Combined Library Job Postings, U of T’s FIS jobs, and UWO’s LIS Canadian jobs. If you have any ideas of sites I should add, please send them my way and I’ll fix up my OPML!
This week’s case studies are all great examples of the feeds McKiernan was calling for in 2004, TOC’s of current journal articles from publishers, or in this case, database providers. I thought ProQuest’sDissertations & Theses RSS feed, a service that notifies you each time a theses or dissertation in a select subject area is added to their database, is so necessary in the academic environment. I’m actually really hoping for the chance to share this service with someone who may need it!
Good idea with the OPML of library job sites! That sounds like it could be very useful.
Hi Heather
I also had problems with WordPress accepting Javascript. I had no problems creating the script with Feed2JS but then couldn’t get it into my Blog. Anyone have a solution for this? However, I think you’re right that RSS streams can be added very simply (at least from first appearances – haven’t tried it yet).
I had the same experience with WordPress. I tried using both Feed2JS and RSS2HTML and found them really easy and simple to use, only to discover that adding the feed to the sidebar in WordPress was even simpler.